Filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s (“Fall of the House of Usher”) love of Stephen King adaptations will continue with “The Life of Chuck,” which has just wrapped production. When Flanagan announced on X (formally Twitter) he also assured audiences that this would NOT be a horror movie. This is an understandable assumption given that King is considered the king of horror, and Flanagan has done plenty of projects in the genre.
King’s “Life of Chuck” comes from the 2020 anthology “If It Bleeds.” The tale is three separate stories linked together to tell the biography of Charles Krantz in reverse. It begins with his at 39 death from a brain tumor and ends with his childhood in a supposedly haunted house.
“Now I’m back to LA to edit (cannot wait), and start the long road of expectation setting that The Life of Chuck isn’t a horror movie,” Flanagan wrote. The filmmaker says it is “the movie I want to leave in the world for my kids.”
It’s been previously reported that “The Life of Chuck,” will be similar in tone to films like “Stand By Me,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” and “The Green Mile.” Basically, you are going to ride the feels train but not from terror. Flanagan both wrote and directed the upcoming film and thanked King for “trusting me with this beautiful, fragile, joyful story.”
The cast for “The Life of Chuck,” includes Chiwetel Ejiofor (“Rob Peace”), Karen Gillan (“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”), Jacob Tremblay (“The Toxic Avenger”), Tom Hiddleston (“Crimson Peak”), Mark Hamill (“Star Wars”), Matthew Lillard (“Five Nights at Freddy’s”), and Heather Langenkamp (“A Nightmare on Elm Street”).
The cast also includes some fresh faces among Flanagan mainstays including Mia Sara, Benjamin Pajak, Trinity Jo-li Bliss, Q’Orianka Kilcher, Antonio Raul Corbo, Harvey Guillen, David Dastmalchian, Kate Siegel, Carl Lumbly, Annalise Basso, Samantha Sloyan, Rahul Kohli, Matt Biedel, Sauriyan Sapkota, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Michael Trucco, Violet McGraw, and Molly C. Quinn.
We’ll keep you posted on updates about “The Life of Chuck” as they become available. You can catch several of Flanagan’s works on Netflix now.
